Trump’s Revenge Campaign Has a Weakness Prosecuting his enemies is turning out to be more difficult than he’d hoped—at least for now.

Donald Trump’s plan to leverage the Department of Justice against his enemies “is not generating the results he might have hoped for,” Quinta Jurecic argues. American criminal law appears to be a less flexible tool than he’d hoped—at least for now.

“Alarming”: Trump’s Threat of Troops in Cities Just Got Much Scarier Top Democrats are demanding that the Pentagon release documentation of internal conversations about future militarization of domestic law enforcement.

News --> Top Dems are demanding that the Pentagon disclose any/all internal memos and policy guidance involving DHS's push for more militarization of domestic enforcement.

It's a response to our reporting on DHS talks w/Pentagon on this. Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1990...

Today’s Daily Cartoon @newyorker.com

Congress may have the spending power, but Trump can usurp it if they won't protect it. And they haven't

If you don’t know who the comptroller general is and what he does (and when he can sue the executive branch), you’ll want to read this! joycevance.substack.com/p/congress-m...

The lesson here is to litigate, not cower.

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5/If you value clear, detailed analysis that makes complicated court decisions like this one understandable, subscribe to Civil Discourse. Joycevance.substack.com

4/Judge Pan concluded, “At bottom, the court’s acquiescence in & facilitation of the Executive’s unlawful behavior derails the ‘carefully crafted system of checked and balanced power’ that serves as the ‘greatest security against tyranny —the accumulation of excessive authority in a single Branch.’”

Congress may have the spending power, but Trump can usurp it if they won't protect it. And they haven't

1/ The court’s decision was 2-1, with Judges Karen Henderson and Gregory Katsas in the majority and Judge Florence Pan dissenting. As Judge Pan notes in dissent, they reframed the issues argued by the government in order to rule in its favor open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Inside the movement that freed gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero from a hellhole The U.S. government under Trump tried to disappear a gay Venezuelan man seeking asylum to a torture prison in El Salvador indefinitely. A coalition of Americans didn’t let them.

"The US government under Trump tried to disappear a gay Venezuelan man seeking asylum to a torture prison in El Salvador indefinitely...

"A coalition of Americans *didn’t let them*"

Great @cwnewser.bsky.social story on the movement to free Andry Hernández Romero:

www.advocate.com/news/freeing...

DNC to help lead nationwide protests against Republican redistricting plans The Democratic National Committee and more than three dozen groups plan events across 20 states Saturday, according to details first shared with NBC News.

"The demonstrations scheduled for this Saturday, August 16th are branded as 'Fight the Trump Takeover'..."

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee was a 'bystander' outside Capitol on Jan. 6, White House says The White House said E.J. Antoni was in town for meetings unrelated to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Mr President:

Tariffs will slow the economy and raise inflation.

Come at me bro.

Tense scene out here. People booing and shaming unidentified federal law enforcement as they stand in the middle of the street, posted to pull people over for random checks.

People loudly jeering these unidentified federal agents.

"You're not helping anyone!"

"How much overtime are you getting paid to do nothing!"

"Boooo!"

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car.

BIG crowd of people shouting at police.

"Fuck you!"

"What is wrong with you!"

"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

Some of the unidentified federal "police" this evening. The ones who sped off in cars with New York plates.

I don't know what happened to the Black woman who was pulled over and arrested.

Or why she was arrested.

Interesting moment when it was just DC police out here and no more feds.

Some folks acknowledged DC police has been taken over by Trump via his abuse of the Home Rule Act.

One woman shouted, "We know you're one of us, you don't have to be complicit!"

Thinning out now. DC police the only ones left, and they're packing up too.

Locals mobilized quickly out here, with handwritten signs warning drivers to avoid this block, lined up ready to protest what's happening. People shouting down from apartments too.

"You should be fucking ashamed!"

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998. The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

House Judiciary Dems are demanding answers from Pam Bondi and the Bureau of Prisons over the 'unusual and abrupt' prison transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell.

"These actions raise substantial concerns that the Administration may now be attempting to tamper with a crucial witness." tinyurl.com/j52mmx28

Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee was a 'bystander' outside Capitol on Jan. 6, White House says The White House said E.J. Antoni was in town for meetings unrelated to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news.

E.J. Antoni appears in numerous videos posted on social media.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Alaskans don't want mining to destroy their fisheries. They have been fighting the Pebble Mine for a decade.

The Trump administration is considering giving Russia access to Alaska’s rare earth minerals as an incentive to end the war in Ukraine.

Full disclosure: I was just joking when I said he might sell Alaska to Putin.

Some idiot on GOP Twitter is going to defend this, too.

In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.

Gotta love that over here Trump is shredding the U.S. Constitution left and right hourly and extorting hundreds of millions from businesses and universities while running crypto scams but in the U.K. the big issue is the foreign secretary going fishing with Vance without a £7 rod license

“.. The monthly budget deficit came in at $291 billion, or 10% more than the same month a year before ..”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Imagine calling other people "low-IQ" when you're incapable of learning, no matter how many times it's explained to you, that a trade deficit is different from a financial loss. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

US deficit grows to $291 billion in July despite surge in tariff revenue The U.S. government's budget deficit grew nearly 20% in July to $291 billion despite a $21 billion jump in customs duty collections from President Donald Trump's tariffs, with outlays growing faster than receipts, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.

US deficit grows to $291 billion in July despite surge in tariff revenue reut.rs/4mxRTbI